Hello all,
There's a fair amount of large-scale survey data available on the
net in SPSS format. Over the last couple of years several of my
students have wanted to make use of such data. Up to now I've
helped them out by importing from SPSS to R, then exporting as CSV
for gretl.
This works OK but it's not very convenient and it loses some
useful information (mainly, descriptive labels for variables and
'value labels' for categorical variables). So I've recently added
to gretl an importer for SPSS .sav files. I've tested on a
variety of such files, but if anyone is in the habit of handling
SPSS data and could give the importer a work-out, that would be
great.
Allin Cottrell